J writes: My daughter has celiac disease, irritable bowel, lactose intolerance & has migraines. She has a bachelor’s degree but works retail. We were so happy when she managed to get the J &…
The TWiVsters explain how the shape of pleomorphic virus particles – spherical or filamentous – determines the probability of virus attachment and fusion, and resistance to selective pressure such as antibodies that block cell entry.
Carson writes: Hi TWiVers and Daniel, I’m sending this to both emails because I’m not sure who could better answer these questions. 1) I know research shows that long-term vaccine side effects generally start within…
Melanie writes: Boxing mice? Hello everyone, I hear knock-out mice talked about often and how they have helped researchers understand viruses. Will you please explain who makes them and how you get them? They are…
Alida writes: I really enjoy listening to the weekly update on “This week in virology” but I was very curious when I heard you say it is a must to aspirate before injecting an IM….
The Guardians of the TWiV-o-verse discuss the process of codon deoptimization for the production of experimental infectious attenuated viral vaccines, and how a respiratory syncytial virus with 619 base changes was rescued by genomes with very large internal deletions.
Christian writes: Dear TWiV team, It’s a bright sunny day here in Germany, so the perfect time to send you a comment on your most recent TWiV episode, #737. There are now more than 30…
Karim writes: Hello Dr. Racaniello, As a pandemic inspired listener, I wanted to thank you and your team for the thoughtful and interesting discussions. TWIV has become my favorite podcast surpassing Marc Maron’s WTF podcast….
Christian writes: HI Daniel, Attached you find a publication on the recent thrombotic events after AZ vaccinations in women. There were just two new ones recently here near Bonn, Germany and and in the meantime…
John, Monica, and Davida join TWiV to discuss development of a method to detect SARS-CoV-2 in raw sewage from all 14 of New York City’s treatment plants, and its use to determine the presence of the genome throughout the pandemic and detection of genome mutations from variants of concern.
The Hosts of TWiV
Vincent Racaniello, Ph.D.
Dickson D.
Despommier, Ph.D.
Alan Dove, Ph.D.
Daniel Griffin, M.D.,
Ph.D., CTropMed CTH
Angela Mingarelli, DVM
Jolene Ramsey, Ph.D.